Accessibility

What I aim for

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. The site does not yet claim to meet them: the checks below are a sample, not a full assessment.

What has been checked

In October 2026 an outside technical audit looked at 35 representative pages and the shared code behind them. It was a desk review of the code, with a sample of journeys tried in one desktop browser; it was not a full WCAG assessment, and no disabled users or screen readers were part of it. It found real problems, and these were fixed in the same week:

• text that was too faint to read, including a water-safety warning in dark mode
• the hourly weather strip, which screen readers could not step through
• the “mark as bagged” buttons on fell lists, which sat inside the fell’s link
• result counts on the homepage and Features filters, which were not announced
• a missing “skip to main content” link on fell and route pages
• unlabelled form fields and decorative drawings read out as unnamed images
• the RoutePark screens, which lost your place when they changed

Known limitations

• Maps and terrain graphics (route maps, the skyline, the relief map) are visual. The ones the audit looked at have a written alternative beside them (stage notes, the skyline as a list, height figures), but I have not yet checked every one, or tested whether those alternatives work well with a screen reader, and the maps themselves are not fully usable without sight.
• GPX downloads are data files for GPS devices and apps, not documents.
• Screen readers, high zoom, small screens and touch have not yet been tested systematically.
• Third-party services (the newsletter sign-up, external forms and embedded content) are outside my control.
• The Hikes Today app is a separate service and was not part of this review.

Tell me about a problem

If something on the site does not work for you, please use the contact page and say which page and what happened. I read every message and aim to reply within a week.